Building a lifestyle business is much easier than it once was. Now there are tools, support and technology to help anyone learn the skills they need to build globally scalable lifestyle businesses from anywhere.
Not long back, just building a website was the domain of the tech savvy coder! Unless you knew code, you wouldn’t think of building a website. Nowadays, anyone can use a ‘drag and drop’ platform to create a website quickly and easily.
Take a look at the video below by clicking the image. As you’ll see, software can enable anyone to build not only a website, but also a business platform, directly from your laptop in a few easy steps.
Building A Lifestyle Business – Setup
A lifestyle business can begin with a website and a ready made sales funnel. With automation and global scale comes freedom from the need of trading time for money. But first you need all your ‘ducks in a row’ before you can make it happen.
Setting up and building a lifestyle business does take some time and effort. Luckily for you, The SFM (Six Figure Mentors) has made it easy to do this with its cutting edge software and back office. You can build a website with a fully functional sales funnel which has a range of digital products in it. You can choose the level of products you ‘place’ in your ‘digital store’.
With a range of high ticket affiliate products to sell, you can use The SFM’s digital business system to build a globally scalable business from anywhere.
Building A Lifestyle Business – What’s Next?
Having a range of digital products in a marketing system is the start of your online journey. In order to make this business system profitable, you need to learn (one of) the various marketing strategies which are needed to sell these products. With affiliate marketing, there’s no need for face to face selling or even to speak to your customers at all!
Marketing strategies include things like blogging, paid marketing, YouTube videos and using social media to draw people into your email list and generate leads and sales. Because an online “lifestyle business” is global, you can do this from anywhere and sell to anyone.
Products can be sold automatically over the internet and there’s no need for postage and handling costs. Because of this, you are able to make some of the largest commissions available in the affiliate marketing business – up to 50% commissions on some sales!
Marketing Strategies
Depending on the various products you choose to put in your digital store, some marketing strategies may be better for you than others. For example, if you have a full range of high ticket products in your store, you’re more able to use paid marketing strategies, knowing your return on investment will be larger.
Your marketing strategy might also be budget dependant too. So if you’re on a tight budget you may want to use a combination of paid marketing, free strategies or one or the other.
Building A Lifestyle Business – Blogging
Blogging is a free strategy to get people to visit your website by creating written content (Web log). By creating and sharing your content, you can build a following or people interested in your subject topic. This is a slow strategy but if you’re consistent over time you should start generating leads and sales from the traffic to your blog.
You can encourage your visitors to opt-in to your blog by offering a free giveaway. The SFM builds this into your website, so there’s less to have to do technically if you go this route. Create content regularly and share it by posting on social media and getting back links to your blog.
Paid Marketing – YouTube
YouTube is one of the more expensive marketing platforms so you’ll need a good return on investment in order to be profitable using YouTube. But if you use SFM’s full product range and earn the largest commissions from product sales, you’ll be in a better position to use the best marketing tools.
With any paid marketing, you can get instant traffic. Traffic is like turning on a ‘tap’. Blogging on the other hand is much slower and more time consuming. Traffic comes in ‘fits and starts’. You don’t control the traffic when you’re building it up slowly using free strategies. Paid marketing is not only much faster, but much more scalable too. So when you figure out a marketing strategy which works, you can scale it up much more quickly.
YouTube is a good strategy to use for lifestyle business products because you can get your message across much more easily with a video than with text adverts using Adwords, Bing or another platform. Ideally use a marketing strategy which can be scaled up easily once you make it profitable. Using organic marketing methods is much slower and more time consuming.
Get started by accessing the free workshop video series on this website. See also lifestyle business mentors.